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I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40 per hour

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383 points imartin2k | 3 comments | 13 May 17 10:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.852s | source
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fiatjaf ◴[13 May 17 11:42 UTC] No.14330452[source]▶
I don't understand what is wrong with Uber Eats charging whatever price they want to charge. If $4.4 is too low just don't work for them. There are probably people for which this is a good price. If not, it's Uber Eats problem, not yours.
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1. nkkollaw ◴[13 May 17 14:03 UTC] No.14331012[source]▶
That's not how it works, luckily. There are laws to protect workers from this kind of crap.

If it wasn't for minimum wages, companies would make deals to pay workers lower and lower and there would be nowhere to work for a decent salary.

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2. driverdan ◴[13 May 17 14:09 UTC] No.14331042[source]▶
> If it wasn't for minimum wages, companies would make deals to pay workers lower and lower and there would be nowhere to work for a decent salary.

You outlaw collusion to lower wages and let the market work.

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3. Noos ◴[13 May 17 19:15 UTC] No.14332496[source]▶
The market will work to price everyone to free. We see this with creative work, where most people have an effective negative minimum wage. You're better off working at a mcdonalds than write, draw, or create, and many places essentially pay nothing for creative work like reviewing.

For many creatives, they literally had to abandon capitalism and go back to the feudal patronage model with Patreon and kickstarter. The market priced even skilled labor down to effectively zero, since there was just so much produced.